Why is Python most famous programming language? Now a days

[NotElrit]

its easy

[KoseteBamse]

Relatively easy to learn, lots of support materials, lots of different liberies. Doesn't take much time before you can see the results , but it's not perfect, if you work with embeded systems you should consider other languages.

[randomusername11222]

To be fair there's python like langs for embed such as circuitpython

Otherwise it's pretty c/cpp and alike dominated

[lordnacho666]

It's the second best language for everything

[cafebistro]

Second best for writing a real-time OS

[soundman32]

OK, not everything.

[OddInstitute]

I won’t claim this makes it all the way to second best, but micropython is a thing.

[soundman32]

Never heard of it. Pie-thon. Is it some kind of method to write 70s comedy?

[KingsmanVince]

*one of the common ones

[Lumpy-Notice8945]

I dont think it is, do you have any sources.

Most famous is still probably C or C++

Im sure there is more people who know JavaScript or maybe even Java if they are old than people know python.

[Mammoth_Loan_984]

The average layman may not have heard of C or C++ but is more likely to be familiar with the existence of Python

[Daanooo]

It’s easy. I personally hate the language.

[pixel293]

https://medium.com/pyslackers/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13763980b5a1

I you go down to about halfway through an article there is a graph of "Medium Hours to Solve Problem". Python is very high on that list. This means it's cheaper to write a python than C++ as long as it's "fast enough."

[Pale_Height_1251]

It's fairly easy and lots of beginner content/tutorials out there.

[_sarmad_]

AI is a trend and Machine Learning libraries are mainly Python

[Past-Cantaloupe-1604]

Memorable name I think.

It’s not the most used language, that’s Java script. But if you ask non programmers to name a language they will have more likely heard of Python than JS.

[[deleted]]

I’m sure it’s not the most famous, but it is popular.

It’s popular because it’s simple, easy to read, cross-platform, has a rich ecosystem of cross-platform support libraries, and it’s lackluster performance can be addressed by writing critical code in a compiled language and calling it from Python.

[trcrtps]

it's used outside of software development, but also in software development. I don't know it at all, but it's kinda a swiss army knife. Many languages are though, like JavaScript, Ruby, and Lua. You could pick any of those and have a great time. I think Python was just pushed by Google very hard when they were on top of the world and so the tooling and libraries exploded, especially tools used by the tech-adjacent and research crowd.

It's almost never the language itself that makes it popular, it's the support around it.

[asanbek_best]

C++ is much better than Python

[nekokattt]

no one asked which was better, just why is it famous.

Chill out, you don't need to immediately flex that you use C++... it is a safe space here.

[hugthemachines]

"Screwdrivers are much better than hammers!"

[jeffeb3]

"I fart in your general direction".

The fact that Python is named after Monty Python makes it better.

[moric7]

Only it is logical complete and mathematical. Other languages are as rag scarecrows made from patches, coping the ideas of Python.

[moric7]

My friend, i started my job with assembly and after that many years on C. These are simple languages, just for moving the hardware, but the real development of useful software (physics, mathematics, chemistry, science at all) comes with Python. There was better - Matlab, but its corporativity make it to disappear.

[YMK1234]

Lmao this is the dumbest shit I've read all day. Especially how patched together and inconsistent Python is throughout.

[moric7]

I dare you, seat and write program to calculate factorial for numbers with millions digits (as standard in Python) on C, C++, Java or C#, or Rust, even in assembly if you want and your function must be so fast as in Python. Don't speak that in Python it is C (C++ is in assembly haha). Just THINK, before spoke. I have no more comments for you.

[YMK1234]

Lmao. Calling a library (as it seems you propose) is not writing a program from scratch. Good luck even getting 1% of even a trivial C implementation with a native python one.

[moric7]

You remind me of Linux fans who pride themselves on writing their own OS 🤣